"About the time of the
end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the
prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of
much clamor and opposition" -- Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

"I think we do not
attach sufficient importance to the restoration of the Jews. We do
not think enough of it. But certainly, if there is anything promised in
the Bible it is this. I imagine that you cannot read the Bible
without seeing clearly that there is to be an actual restoration of the
children of Israel...May that happy day soon come!"
--Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) [C. H. Spurgeon, The C. H.
Spurgeon Collection, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, I, no. 28, 1855
(Albany, Oregon: Ages Software, 1998), 382.]

“…the literal sense of the Old
Testament prophecies has been far too much neglected by the Churches, and
is far too much neglected at the present day, and that under the mistaken
system of spiritualizing and accommodating Bible language, Christians have
too often completely missed its meaning.”